Turbo-loening,

[jcf]

Here is the final realization of Grover Loening's amphibian layout, the Columbia XJL-1:


Now what about making a 'modern' version with a turbo-prop? Starting point for an airframe?

Any ideas?

Cheers, Jon

[elmayerle]

Add the floats and lower fuselage of a Grumman Duck to a T-28 with the turboprop from an AT-28E?

[jcf]

That's a possibility.

Howzabout a Cessna Caravan?


or a Turbine Malibu?


Turbo-Porter is another candidate:


Actually I think the PC-6 is begging for a Loening style float assembly, all hard angles and straight lines, of course.
   


Cheers, Jon

[Howard of Effingham]

Add the floats and lower fuselage of a Grumman Duck to a T-28 with the turboprop from an AT-28E?

i'd add forward fuselage of a dauntless dive bomber. well forward of the rear of
the gunner's cockpit anyhow.   to the a/c evan has mentioned.

t.

[jcf]

Add the floats and lower fuselage of a Grumman Duck to a T-28 with the turboprop from an AT-28E?

i'd add forward fuselage of a dauntless dive bomber. well forward of the rear of
the gunner's cockpit anyhow.   to the a/c evan has mentioned.

t.

Thanks and sorry guys, I realize I wasn't very clear, its not a model of the Columbia I'm thinking about but rather a 21st century version of the Loening layout.

The Loening concept went from this:


through this:


to here:


So I was pondering the next evolutionary step, and I'm liking the Turbo-porter as a base airframe.

Cheers, Jon